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Mountaintop Coal Falls As Renewables, Natural Gas Rise

2015-07-08 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Coal country in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky is riddled with flattened mountain tops and valleys filled in with the rocks and debris that once formed the peaks high above. Mountains blasted from the central Appalachian landscape are signs that the coal industry is at work supplying fuel for electric power plants throughout the region. But that kind of coal production, known as mountaintop removal coal mining, has declined 62 percent since 2008, new U.S. Energy Information Administration...

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